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Does This Remind You of Anything?
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Never Trust a Trailer
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Big Applesauce
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Taking You with Me
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
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Not Quite Dead
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Oh, Crap!
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
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What the Hell, Hero?
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How We Got Here
Disney Death
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Blatant Lies
Punch-Clock Villain
Tranquil Fury
Ax-Crazy
Reality Ensues
The Load
The Un-Favourite
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Bloody Hilarious
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My Greatest Failure
Children Are Innocent
Berserk Button
Made of Iron
Obviously Evil
For the Evulz
Sports Stories
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Earn Your Happy Ending
Black Dude Dies First
Wham Line
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Spanner in the Works
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"Well Done, Son!" Guy
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Take a Third Option
Groin Attack
Only Sane Man
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Better to Die than Be Killed
The '70s
Half the Man He Used to Be
Pyrrhic Victory
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Love at First Sight
Scary Black Man